omg omg omg omg omg ORIHIME! Sorry everyone who is missing Rukia enough to riot in the streets but I GOT MY CHAD W/ORIHIME CONVO! LONG LOST WHATEVER???!!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA OMG... Sushi sneezed all over Bookman!

I laughed.

Okay. I think Sensei and I are tripping on the same cold meds.

I like this chapter and I still have a good feeling about Tsukishima. And yes, Ichigo--so cute when you said "probably."

Whoever called that Jackie would be a dirty fighter a couple weeks ago--kudos. She looks so awesome in those thigh high boots. *fans self*

Still trying to figure out the title but I'm a little weak from the Jackie-ness.

Yes Syn and Sea, there were wasted panels--the convo between Chad and Orihime could've started mid-convo instead of repeating information we already knew. The one new bit was Chad's reaction and Orihime saying she felt like she knew Tsukishima--AAAARGH, WHAT IS HIS POWER OR DOES HIME REALLY KNOW HIM OR WHAT?

And why do I really believe he's a friend? He's worked his bishie power on me obviously. <.< I'm easy like that.

I think Orihime assumed that the most probable explanation for why she felt like she knew Tsukishima was his power, hence her following up the imparting of the information with a "take care of yourself / his power is really fearsome". But I don't think it's his power; at least, I don't think his power is to make people his friends, and other than mind manipulation which just seems like a copout, my guess is she actually does *know* him. Sort of.

The question is from when. A past life? From when she was a kid? This is Sora's new incarnation / Ulquiorra's new incarnation / Aizen's kid / whatever?

I have already decided Jackie's theme music... but I'm torn between "These boots are made for walkin'" and "Somewhere over the rainbow." I got some serious Wizard of Oz vibes from the panel with the boot clicking. Why? I don't know...

Ichigo bein' Ichigo. It's both loveable and frustrating. <3

Inoue running into poles while she is talking on the phone does not bode well for her future driving skills.

I kinda want to ship Riruka with Mohawk-boy now, just for the fact that they both sneeze on people hilariously.

Ha, ha! Page six is my fav too :D This arc truly delivers as far as derpy Ichigo is concerned. That's something I'd been missing for a long time...

Finally some communication between the nakama, yes! :D

Orhime splatting her face into the pole was adorable too... especially how she became serious again only seconds later. We're getting some good old!Bleach Hime here and I'm loving it :D

Also... SNOT! Kubo seems to be having a love affair with it recently xD Also this reminds me of the theory that a character that is involved in comic relief scenes cannot be 100% evil. Maybe this is a suggestion as to Tsukishima's intentions. Because, seriously, after the last chapters where he was stabbing everyone in sight, the last thing I'd expect was for him to get comically sneezed at...

yeah, noble ichigo is always noble XDDDDwell, communication, if I were ishida I'd be sneezing all the time (sarcarm mode on) XD poor guy, I have the feeling he's taking so long to appear that by the time we see him again he'll be fully recovered, like "you missed me? then come visit me, you ***** !" XD

Yeah, that was what I thought. I think Riruka left because she didn't like Jackie, and that was why hat-boy's reaction was, "I don't like her when she's like that", implying that this was something she pulled semi-frequently. I didn't think she was referring to Ichigo.

I think the jury's still out on exactly what Tsukishima did to Orihime. He stabbed her through the heart and now she thinks/feels? he's her friend or that she knows him somehow. It may not be harm in the conventional sense, but he definitely manipulated some reaction from her by force, and violated her body in the process. It's not exactly the act of a friend, but if Tsuki acting on behalf of someone else and whatever he did to Orihime will actually protect her, then maybe it's a case of the ends justify the means.

That's not to say Tsuki is any more or less a villain than the other Fullbringers because we don't really know if Ginjou and the others are telling Ichigo (and Chad) the whole truth or using them.

The other thing that occurs to me is that Orihime was "unharmed" because she is a Fullbringer whereas Ishida's powers come from a different source; Quincy/heredity. That makes Ishida a possible barrier to whatever Tsuki intends regarding Ichigo, whereas Orihime along with Chad and Ichigo are potential allies.

Oh yes, isn't Chad just like the best friend you've always wanted? If it wasn't for his not calling Orihime for a few days and eating her bread anyway (and hell, some of my guy friends would do that to me except for the fact that they know what debbie's like when you DON'T CALL HER), Chad is the absolute BEST FRIEND EVER.

"Dirty Boots" eh? I like these boots better than "Dark Boots", well maybe because I prefer Jackie to Lena Lee. We can tell Kubo san is rather a fashionable man. Just look at Jackie's clothes. I WANT THAT OUTFIT.

The conversation between Chad/Hime really made me really curious about Bookman's power.

Where are Kon, Ishida?????? Mysteriously kidnapped or what?

Hohoho, now I look forward to Chad's fight. It's kinda funny that in both SS arc, HM arc and in pre-HM arc, Chad tends to be the first one to fall down. Not fair, Kubo san.

I'm getting flashbacks to the Soul Society arc from the most recent chapter. This is a good thing though. Specifically the fact that while we're getting some fairly short but sweet action scenes we're also getting a lot of stuff going on in the background, much like the 'Who murdered Aizen?' stuff that was going on in the background of that arc which was part of why it was so interesting and why the Hueco Mundo are seemed to drag so much in places.

Couldn't include Ishida in that conversation, noooo, even though he was the one originally attacked...

BUT NAH, I'm not really bitter, we got the Chad-Orihime convo. Insert speculation...

Haha, now I gotta wonder if KT was thinking of the SY song when naming Jackie's fullbring. Torn between wanting more insight on these Fullbring members, and the acknowledgment that that would only serve to cut more time for existing characters.

I think Riruka's talking about Jackie when she said that she's not interested.other than Ichigo's being cool and awesome and shounen-hero-like again XDvv, hey Tsukishima, can I have those paparazzi photos of Ichigo, pleaasee? they look AWESOME =P

that paparazzi picture looks like it was taken while Ichigo beat up the guys from the same high school Tsukishima's underling is from! the underling prob used the opportunity while at their school to take the snapshots XD both Ishida's and Ichigo's (and maybe even Orihime's)